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Friday, August 24, 2007

The Quincy Punx

This is a shot of The Quincy Punx live in the Radio House living room from the mid-'90s, the band hailed from St. Paul, Minnesota. I think I loved The Quincy Punx from the get go. Their name came from the infamous episode of the TV show "Quincy" that featured punk rockers, they played fast obnoxious punk like The Dwarves with hilarious lyrics, and first 7" in 1992 ripped off the artwork from The Germs GI album, only with a safety pin through it. I thought the whole concept and execution of the band was hilarious, although it dismayed me to later realize some people were offended by them and didn't think they were funny. Geeeesh. I interviewed them back in the day for 10 Things and was totally stoked when they played at Cameron's house. And they were super nice guys too, they even gave me some half-assed apology for the song "Nuke Seattle." Reccess Records has a bunch of their old vinyl and CDs for sale still, but they haven't put anything out since 1997. According to the band they are still together and will some day put out a double CD set of all their releases, but they are really lazy, so it may be a while. Ha ha ha!

Lyrics to "Nuke Seattle," which came out at the height of grunge grabbing the world's attention in 1993:

I wanna see Seattle in flamesCuz their bands all sound the samePearlGarden is totally gayLet's just blow the fuckers awaySeatle gone in a mushroom cloudI'll push the button and I'll be damn proud

(repeat chorus)

Let's make a crater of the pacific northwestWe'll get Nirvana along with the restNo more hyped up poseur sceneWe'll start all over, wipe the slate cleanIt'll be a quick and easy wayTo make those stupid fuckers payNow that Seattle's out of the wayLet's go fuckin' nuke L.A.